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Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that's how you want to come at the problem
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research.
Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.
